Mike Bannister

Mike Bannister is an airline pilot most remembered for being the Chief Concorde Pilot for the British Airways fleet from 1995 until the retirement of the supersonic aircraft in 2003.
He first joined the Concorde crew in 1977 and he became Concorde’s youngest pilot. During his career as a Concorde pilot he flew for nearly 10,000 hours with almost 7000 of those hours flying Concorde supersonic. Mike Bannister captained Concordes retirement flight which flew from New York to London on October 24th 2003.
Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet that had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04.